Books
Memoir · 2026
Belonging to Myself
Learning to see what I feel
When young Michael crossed the stone bridge over the moat of a Dutch castle, he was entering another world. The England of his childhood lay behind him; an unknown life waited ahead. In post-war Liverpool, he'd been the boy who didn't join in — not…
Family history
Letters from the Past
An English Family in the 19th & 20th century
A Shropshire village is Ann Handley’s home in 1851. Her father has destined her to be a farmer’s wife, and says she doesn’t need to read and write. Feeling constrained at home, she longs to escape. But just as Ann begins to make her way…
Family history
How I Survived the Great War
The memoirs of Jack Handley
Jack Handley was kicked out of home by his father when he joined the Territorial Force at the age of twenty-one in 1912. Jack didn’t regret joining the army and going to war, at least not initially. When the Great War started, he and his…